Ken Hayworth's Roadmap to Mind Uploading

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Mind uploading is the process of transferring the contents of an individual’s biological mind, to another substrate.  Dr. Ken Hayworth has now outlined a proposal to achieve this Apollo-scale task in a roadmap.

One of the greatest forever unresolved philosophical questions: What is reality? Will get a whole lot more complex if Ken Hayworth’s interpretation of the logical conclusion to his work is attained. Hayworth’s work: brain mapping. The proposed logical conclusion: mind uploading.

Mind uploading is the process of transferring the contents of an individual’s biological mind, including: memories, consciousness and personality traits…to another substrate, such as a computer.

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There are countless ways human brain mapping will help humanity, notably for understanding and combating neurological disorders. But Hayworth’s ultimate goal of mind uploading pushes the research into the realm of a post-human possibility, a place few scientists have opened their own minds to.

According to Hayworth, "Mind uploading is the logical conclusion of an advanced neuroscience.  If we really understand how the brain works, we will be able to build that brain."

"Mind uploading is the logical conclusion of an advanced neuroscience.  If we really understand how the brain works, we will be able to build that brain."

Hayworth believes that chemical fixation, not cryonics, offers the most promising method for capturing a complete human connectome, which could then be used to recreate a brain digitally. Current methods have only just been able to plasticize a whole mouse brain, but digitizing the connectome is still a huge technological challenge.

Hayworth estimates that in order to capture a human brain, the technology will have to be scaled 100 million-fold. This is a prerequisite to mind uploading.

Several large scale scientific endeavors to better understand the brain are underway; their success or failure could set the tone for the future mainstream acceptance or rejection of Hayworth's roadmap to mind uploading. His 'logical conclusion' is still the stuff of science fiction – for now.


SOURCE  Galactic Public Archives

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